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The Prescient William Booth

By Byron / July 20, 2012 /

“I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.” – William Booth, Founder of the Salvation Army William Booth died nearly a century ago. His words have proven to be…

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What Huffington Wouldn't Post

By Byron / July 19, 2012 /

Here, without amendment, is the original post I sent to the Huffington Post in response to this article on Chick-fil-A (Note: I’m sending the response I tried to get posted, which I had to edit a tad at the end, because apparently they have a word limit; nothing significant is changed from what I wrote.…

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"Welfare" in the Early Church

By Byron / July 1, 2012 /

Now and again you’ll hear someone, usually a professing Christian whose politics skew left, try to draw a parallel between what took place in the early church (recorded in Acts 4) and our contemporary welfare state. I find this connection to be utterly untenable, and I thought I’d explain this to my readers by listing…

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Jesus and Homosexuality

By Byron / May 28, 2012 /

One of the things one hears with frequency in our current cultural soiree with regard to homosexuality goes something like this: “Jesus never said anything about homosexuality”, and of course the intended upshot is fairly obvious. As the reasoning goes, because we can find in the words of Jesus, recorded in the gospels, no mention…

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The Next Good Argument I Hear for "Gay Marriage"…

By Byron / February 9, 2012 /

Will be the first. Seriously, liberal argumentation generally consists of sloganeering, half-truths, utopian fantasies, and ad hominem attacks. Pretty much every argument that I’ve ever heard advanced to buttress “gay marriage” falls neatly into one or more of these categories. Today, USA Today came out with an editorial piece favoring the decision by the ultra-leftist…

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